Zúñiga, Fernando; Creissels, Denis (2024). Applicative constructions: An introductory overview. In: Zúñiga, Fernando; Creissels, Denis (eds.) Applicative constructions in the world's languages. Comparative Handbooks of Linguistics: Vol. 7 (pp. 1-56). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton 10.1515/9783110730951-001
Full text not available from this repository. (Request a copy)This chapter presents and contextualizes the definition of applicative constructions used in the present book. (Although our definition is conservative in several respects, it is broader than some alternative definitions and narrower than others; in particular, we argue that a number of similar constructions are best regarded as lookalikes rather than as types of applicatives.) The chapter also surveys the main morphological, syntactic, and semantic parameters of variation of applicatives identified in the previous literature, and outlines the structural characteristics of the applicatives of Classical Nahuatl, the language for which the term was first used. Lastly, we provide a roadmap for the book and comment on its coverage and coherence.
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06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies > Institute of Linguistics > Applied Linguistics 06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies > Institute of Linguistics |
UniBE Contributor: |
Zúñiga, Fernando |
Subjects: |
400 Language > 410 Linguistics 400 Language > 490 Other languages |
ISSN: |
2364-4354 |
ISBN: |
9783110735482 |
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Comparative Handbooks of Linguistics |
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De Gruyter Mouton |
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English |
Submitter: |
Fernando Zúñiga |
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20 Dec 2023 17:20 |
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17 Jan 2024 00:15 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1515/9783110730951-001 |
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https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/189355 |
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